Using unpublished email interviews collected for a Home Office project on the sex industry, this anthology presents the individual stories of sex workers and buyers in England and Wales, in their own words. The author Natasha Mulvihill also re-interviews the participants to reflect on their original interview, their experience of engaging in research and of managing through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Of interest to policy-makers and students of Criminology, Sociology, Social Policy, Law and Qualitative Methods, the text seeks to navigate through the difficult politics of the sex industry and re-focus our understanding on the lived experiences of those involved.
as the more recent transition to an alternative extractivist industry with the commodification of asylum seekers now becoming Nauru’s main industrial enterprise ( Morris, 2019 ). In both cases, Nauru is put to work by colonial powers at the expense of the small nation’s social, economic, and environmental wellbeing, while the island’s isolation serves to largely hide the Australian government’s actions from its constituents’ view. Alternatively, the case of Bougainville helps us to tease out the sometimes-intimate relationships between violence and extractivist
Robust university–industry partnerships are vital to achieve the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and create a better world for everyone.
Developing the theory and practice of the ‘5th Generation University’, this book shows how cross-sector collaboration and innovation are crucial to maximising the societal benefits of research, education and knowledge exchange, while also driving economic growth and productivity.
The authors bring extensive experience in working at the interface between academia, industry and government to demonstrate how universities can effectively combine transdisciplinary programmatic activities and strategic corporate philanthropy. They explain how long-term alliances can be forged to have a transformational impact on the greatest challenges facing our world such as climate change.
195 TEN Detroit’s emerging innovation in urban infrastructure: how liabilities become assets for energy, water, industry, and informatics Dan Kinkead Detroit has many aspects that, all too often, are conceived of as liabilities. These include vast amounts of vacant land, empty and abandoned buildings, and undervalued property. Dan Kinkead sees these characteristics not as liabilities, but rather as assets for leveraging new and innovative urban practices. His chapter focuses on innovative infrastructure, such as renewable energy production or
The Cadogan hotel hinted at what lay further out from shore. *** ‘Frontier culture,’ writes Tsing, ‘is a conjuring act because it creates the wild and spreading regionality of its imagination. It conjures a self-conscious translocalism, committed to the obliteration of local places.’ 4 The conversion of local specificity into extractable and pliable forms is a central characteristic of contemporary finance. Mining is not the only extractive industry. While the dreams of North America’s private investors were being set ablaze by tales of gold at Busang, the
Policy and Politics, Vol. 14No.4 (1986),507-518 GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY: The local dimension Carol Vielba Introduction Most of the literature on government and industry concerns relationships with central government. Yet the relationship between local government and industry is hardly insignificant. Business contributes more than £7,000 m, about 18% oflocal authority annual income, through the rates system. Local authorities playa role in regulating industry through their land use planning, licensing and consumer protection powers. They pro- vide services such as
Policy and Politics, Vol. 14No.4 (1986), 491-505 GOVERNMENT-INDUSTRY RELATIONS: A review article Stephen Wilks Until very recently the area of government-industry relations (GIR) could reasonably be regarded as a terra incognita, an unmapped land in which a few landmarks had been identified but in which myths grew up and ogres were prevalent. Thus, in an earlier review article, Steel con- cluded that 'our understanding of this field is at a relatively early stage of development both theoretically and empirically' (Steel, 1983, p. 449). In the past five years
1 GOVERNMENT-INDUSTRY RELATIONS IN BRITAIN: the regulation of the tobacco industry Rob Baggott In recent years. political scientists have taken a greater interest in the relationship between government and industry. This article examines the specific relationship between the government and the tobacco industry in a structured fashion. so as to facilitate comparisons with other indus- tries. Three factors which have shaped this relationship are examined: the pressures on government to intervene in the affairs of the industry; the complexity of the machin- ery of
This original book builds on the author’s research in Phoenix cities to present a vivid story of Europe’s post-industrial cities pre- and post- financial crisis. Using varied case studies the book explores how policy responses to the economic crisis have played out in different European cities, with their contrasting conditions, history and performance generating contrasting reactions. The book compares changes between Northern and Southern European countries, bigger and smaller cities, over the past ten years. Across the continent social cohesion, community investment and social enterprise have gained momentum as Europe’s crowded, resource-constrained cities face up to environmental and social limits faster than other less densely urban countries, such as the US. The author presents a compelling framework to show that Europe’s cities are creating a new industrial economy to combat environmental and social unravelling.
53 THREE The cultural industry of parent-blame ‘I don’t care about the camera. It’s just another family that needs my help. It doesn’t matter if it’s one camera or thirty cameras. What’s here – the space between me and you – is all that matters.’ (Jo Frost, interview with Macaulay, 2010, for the Telegraph) Supernanny, a reality television programme that promised to transform the lives of families struggling with parenting, was first broadcast by Channel 4 on British television in July 2004. The first episode featured the Woods family, whose two
